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How to enable blue tooth on a Dell 9400?
Looked all over the laptop and cant find a way to switch it on
Anyone know how?
My phone has blue tooth and its enabled but the nokia suite cant see it.
Its definitely on on two phones beside the laptop.
try in Start controll panel network connections it should be in there and you should find all the utilities you need in network connections.
If I recall correctly, there is no seperate switch for BT on the 9400. But there is a switch for the WLAN. As long as the WLAN is switched on, BT will be on.
There should be a BT indicator light on your laptop's light panel, it blue colored while all the rest are like green or yellow...
if you laptop does have BT, the blue BT light shall turn on when you switch the WLAN/WiFi switch.
now the wifi could be disabled by the software, so the WLAN light may or may not turn on...
note:
haven't figured out how to use software to turn off BT (ie: turn on WLAN but turn off BT).... heheee....
There should be a BT indicator light on your laptop's light panel, it blue colored while all the rest are like green or yellow...
if you laptop does have BT, the blue BT light shall turn on when you switch the WLAN/WiFi switch.
now the wifi could be disabled by the software, so the WLAN light may or may not turn on...
note:
haven't figured out how to use software to turn off BT (ie: turn on WLAN but turn off BT).... heheee....
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Its for a client ....... was late but I looked every where.
Surely a high spec laptop has it as standard?
Go on the dell website and make sure he has installed drivers for it.
I believe that model can come with bluetooth but i am not sure about if it is standard
Try in device manager to see if windows thinks its there also
run the add new hardware wizard to see if windows is waiting to install drivers for it also
I believe that model can come with bluetooth but i am not sure about if it is standard
Try in device manager to see if windows thinks its there also
run the add new hardware wizard to see if windows is waiting to install drivers for it also
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Ive asked the Dell sales reps to look it up for me ........... they should know if its installed.
Really disappointed if no.
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check whether in the device manager u see a bluetooth device. u need to install the bluetooth drivers for communication with a bluetooth device so u can go the dell website and download the drivers. if u give the service tag of the computer u will get the details of the specifications with which the laptop was shipped. then u can also download the drivers from the same site. pls check this link
this is the link for the bluetooth devices for the same model
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R117967&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_9400&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7388&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=2&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=156024
bhanu
check whether in the device manager u see a bluetooth device. u need to install the bluetooth drivers for communication with a bluetooth device so u can go the dell website and download the drivers. if u give the service tag of the computer u will get the details of the specifications with which the laptop was shipped. then u can also download the drivers from the same site. pls check this link
this is the link for the bluetooth devices for the same model
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R117967&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_9400&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7388&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=2&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=156024
bhanu